Pfhorrest wrote:Yeah the Guy Fawkes mask with the US flag printed on it is the weirdest thing about that to me.

The U.S. got independence by fighting the British government.Guy Fawkes fought the British government.V fought the British government.So, the theme of the shirt appears to be, "Fuck the British government".

suffer-cait wrote:yes, apologies for not wordsing good enough for you. they try to sell, and then they succeed.

They try to sell (for 150K), and then they succeed (at 122K). Not the same.

If however they actually succeed at the asking price, then "they buy at 100K, put 7K into the house, and then sell at 150K" would make the point.

But... what it tells me is that somebody managed to create 50K of value with 7K of money and 43K of cleverness. What's wrong with that?

Jose

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Oh me yarm, THE AREA IS IN HIGH DEMAND. THEY PROBABLY GET EVEN MORE. IT LOOKS SHITTY AND I CAN't IMAGINE PEOPLE FEELING THAT THAT"S OK, THAT THEY WANT TO PUT THEIR NAME ON THAT. THE FACT THAT PEOPLE PAY FOR IT IS PATHETIC, BUT THEY ALL STILL GO WITHIN A COUPLE WEEKS. WHY IS THAT SUCH A FUCKING PROBLEM FOR YOU?

you are purposely being dificult and nitpicky. for why? you clearly understand what i meant to say, so what is the point now? cause it gives you some small feeling of satisfaction? does it make you feel like maybe you are better than me? cause if that's really what you need out of this, if that's really all you have to your confidence's name, then take it. because that is a sad state, and i can see how if this is your normal behavior, you really do need all the victories you can get, huh?

suffer-cait wrote:because that is a sad state, and i can see how if this is your normal behavior, you really do need all the victories you can get, huh?

Yeah ucim is a little twerp and needs to be a fucking nitpicky asshole all the time

I meant if they are always this terrible, then they probably doesn't have much else in their life, probably not very many people, either. In which case, they really do need this stupid victory, and as such, I gift it to them.

how did my track pad palm check get turned back on. it's the malevolent ghost of sticky keys here to make it impossible to play any game.

I paid $22 for a $14 cellphone case just so UPS could knock on my door at 2 in the afternoon, to get a signature from Any Rando who happens to be in the house they bring it to. I missed 'em the first time because i, a skulking night person, was trying to sleep. 75 cubic inches of unnecessary packaging later, and I don't like it. it kind of gets in the way of doing anything i want to do with the phone.

When I'm right in the middle of dealing with a poblem and needing all my focus, somehow everyone nearby suddenly wants all my attention and ignores my signing and asking them to wait for a tiny moment. Makes me mentally rip their bloody heads off.

Ok, whoever is trying to charge $22.32 for a pdf repair manual is out of their bloody mind. Not only did the actual cassette deck cost me less than 30 bucks, I can have a physical copy shipped to my doorstep for that sort of money. Not that I'd spend that sort of money on a deck I bought for less than $30, which is why I don't understand how these repair manuals are this expensive. It's not like the Fisher CR-125 is the holy grail of cassette decks trumping anything Nakamichi ever made...

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.- Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (14 Jan 1875-1965)

So they set up a trap for the single old fart in the world, who 1) doesn't know the price of repair manuals on ebay, but 2) wants to read it as a pdf file on his computer? Seems like "sell to everyone who owns this deck for $2" would yield more bucks, but maybe my math is off...

Chen wrote:Most people dont do their own repairs of anything so high price low volume may make sense. For something uncommon like a cassette deck its probably even more the case.

I think most people buying old cassette decks do their own repairs, either because it's part of the fun or out of necessity. Exactly because tape decks are uncommon, so there aren't that many places still repairing them.

Kewangji wrote:Ebooks tend to have a high VAT, could be something to do with that?

Maybe, I've never heard about that before. Why do ebooks have higher VAT than any other commodity?

somitomi wrote:Ok, whoever is trying to charge $22.32 for a pdf repair manual is out of their bloody mind. Not only did the actual cassette deck cost me less than 30 bucks, I can have a physical copy shipped to my doorstep for that sort of money. Not that I'd spend that sort of money on a deck I bought for less than $30, which is why I don't understand how these repair manuals are this expensive. It's not like the Fisher CR-125 is the holy grail of cassette decks trumping anything Nakamichi ever made...

I'll be honest it took me a couple readings to realize you were talking about a manual to repair a cassette deck in pdf form. Instead of a manual about repairing pdfs. I was very confused for a minute.

I just got a new car, and the total psychos are out on the roads. Coincidence? Probably.But this week is the first time I've ever seen anyone driving the wrong way up the highway (I witnessed them make their 3 point turn in a 90 zone as I approached), or parking in a roundabout (had to honk to get them to move).And the week isn't even half over.

somitomi wrote:Ok, whoever is trying to charge $22.32 for a pdf repair manual is out of their bloody mind. Not only did the actual cassette deck cost me less than 30 bucks, I can have a physical copy shipped to my doorstep for that sort of money. Not that I'd spend that sort of money on a deck I bought for less than $30, which is why I don't understand how these repair manuals are this expensive. It's not like the Fisher CR-125 is the holy grail of cassette decks trumping anything Nakamichi ever made...

I'll be honest it took me a couple readings to realize you were talking about a manual to repair a cassette deck in pdf form. Instead of a manual about repairing pdfs. I was very confused for a minute.

Meanwhile my amp has issues again. I already had the damn thing repaired twice, it's just.... *unarticulated frustration*. Quite frankly, had I known about the impeding doom of the power supply before the first repair, I wouldn't have bothered.

HellSteedTrotskyToday at 7:52 PMSo what would people think of a government employment opportunity program called Fortress USA?The idea is that those without employment could get work at reasonable government wages working in manual labor to build pillboxes, trenches, and anti-tank ditches in two major belts running North to South through the midwestMostly a purely economics program with the idea of keeping people busy and out of trouble, as well as physically fitMoney would be removed from current welfare plans and employment subsidies to help pay for the programOflameoToday at 8:04 PMThat could be done as an Army core of engineers expansion at first and be split off to its own branch later.Stelar SevenToday at 8:33 PM@HellSteedTrotsky That would be a tremendous waste of materials and human capitol.DogDogDogDogDogToday at 8:33 PMTo achieve what? Separate the slave-owning states from the democrat-leaning coasts?If you want to spend a fortune on engineering work, build solar farms, desalination plants, pumping stations, water towers, on-demand UV sterilisation units and low-energy housing across the south edge of the Sahara.Stelar SevenToday at 8:35 PMBetter would be to eploy those people to train for jobs that have a future and work for the situation the people are actually in.DogDogDogDogDogToday at 8:35 PMPump safe drinking water into Chad, Darfur, South Sudan and the like and walk away with a smile and a wave.HellSteedTrotskyToday at 8:36 PMWell that was the problem, I didn't want to invest any materialsStelar SevenToday at 8:36 PMThat would add lasting value to the nation and improve the conditions of their lives.You build pillboxes with no materials?HellSteedTrotskyToday at 8:36 PMfallen trees, a tarp, and covered with dirtDogDogDogDogDogToday at 8:36 PMThat's not a pillbox, and it wouldn't last.You may as well pay them to dig up potatoes, peel them, glue the peels back on and rebury them.Stelar SevenToday at 8:37 PMDo the math on materials needed to move large numbers of people into a non urban place, feed and shelter them.HellSteedTrotskyToday at 8:37 PMthat uses too much glueWhy would I give them trucks or food?the whole issue is employmentStelar SevenToday at 8:38 PMSo in addition to wasted time you want a humanitarian disaster?HellSteedTrotskyToday at 8:39 PMthey can go to Mcdonald's with their $18 an hourDogDogDogDogDogToday at 8:39 PMThat really is a humanitarian disaster. Your healthcare bills would skyrocket.Stelar SevenToday at 8:39 PMThere are no McDonald's in the places where you want a wallHellSteedTrotskyToday at 8:39 PMThe midwest?Stelar SevenToday at 8:40 PMSeriously do you think this shit through at all?DogDogDogDogDogToday at 8:40 PMSo you want to build this wall and dig these trenches through towns in the Midwest?HellSteedTrotskyToday at 8:40 PMAlso who said anything about a wall, I want something that looks like it came from World War IDogDogDogDogDogToday at 8:40 PMWhy do you think towns in the Midwest would want or need this? Are you expecting Genghis Khan?HellSteedTrotskyToday at 8:40 PMWell in towns we will need concrete for real pillboxesand more anti tank gunsso those would be more expensive, but we can siphon that off from DoDDogDogDogDogDogToday at 8:41 PMWhy would you need any of this?Why would towns need permanent anti-tank gun emplacements?HellSteedTrotskyToday at 8:41 PMTo bring unemployment to zerobecause war is best prepared for, before it happens, not after it happensEnvision the Chinese on your doorstep now, so that you will be ready for them when they comeDogDogDogDogDogToday at 8:43 PMHow do you expect the Chinese to get there? What are they going to do, conquer eastern Russia and wade across the Aleutians?HellSteedTrotskyToday at 8:43 PMMaybe it won't be the Chinesemaybe we can just be paranoid for paranoia's sakethat and it could help solve the obesity crisisDogDogDogDogDogToday at 8:45 PMYou don't think the money, effort and raw materials could be better spent on healthcare services, schools, libraries, theatres, secure housing for the mentally ill, sheltered housing for victims of domestic violence, amateur movie-making facilities, sports halls, swimming pools, landscape gardening ... ?HellSteedTrotskyToday at 8:46 PMNone of those things prevent conquest, they just benefit people's well beingThat's like asking why spend money on tank upgrades and nukes when you could buy textbooks for every child in Africa

HellSteedTrotskyToday at 6:46 PMIf that were the case, why is the Rio Grande not proving the barrier to immigration?The two play off each otheryou need moats, walls, and towersand then someone to defend itCome on folks, we've been building border walls since ChinaWe should know our shit by nowDogDogDogDogDogToday at 6:54 PMCan't you just draw a line from Carlsbad through Agua Caliente, Sahuarita, Playas, Deming, White Sands, Marfa, Juno, Uvalde, Hebbronville, Delmita and Port Mansfield and fill everywhere south of that with Bounding Betty mines?HellSteedTrotskyToday at 6:54 PMexpensive, and it's not exactly re-openableIf we wanted permanent hostility with Mexico we could do thatbut personally, I'm just star struck that we actually have a president who reasonably filled a campaign promisethat's like, the first in a decadeI never thought the wall would actually happen, but it apparently hasHellSteedTrotskyToday at 7:26 PMI still am wondering what the strategic plan is if the US army and the migrant caravan end up face to faceWill we actually slaughter 7000 unarmed civilians if they refuse to stop attempting to cross into our country?are we ready to use lethal force to stop immigration?OflameoToday at 7:32 PMThe Republicans are Cucks, they will probably let every last one of them in.HellSteedTrotskyToday at 7:37 PMI'm not sure if a volunteer militia would help anything, but I'm sure there are enough folks in Arizona who have had enoughOflameoToday at 7:39 PMIf they don't want an alien invasion from Mexico, they need to get ready to counter attack.HellSteedTrotskyToday at 7:41 PMthis invasion is NOT from MexicoThey have stubbornly refused offers of Mexican asylumOflameoToday at 7:41 PMYou are technically correct, the best kind of correct.HellSteedTrotskyToday at 7:42 PMThey are literally turning down Mexican authorities offer of refugee status working towards citizenshipIt's like the old saying, beggars shouldn't be choosers I thinkThey are illegal in Mexico, they literally stormed the Mexican borderThey got offered a silver spoon and a banquet from Mexico after doing thatI think we should give no quarter to these peopleAt best they are super entitled pricks

On one hand, it's some blow hard who's all talk, and no balls. On the other hand, we just had at least two incidents on the news when one of those blow hard actually does what Trump and Co keep talking about. If you know him for real, get him some help. If you don't know him, it's just an internet stranger.

HellSteedTrotskyYesterday at 5:59 PMI am not sure why we are making efforts to prevent people from starving to death other than it tends to make them less dangerous

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First, a bit of terminological history to clear up any confusion about the meanings of “sociopath,” “psychopath,” and related terms. In the early 1800s, doctors who worked with mental patients began to notice that some of their patients who appeared outwardly normal had what they termed a “moral depravity” or “moral insanity,” in that they seemed to possess no sense of ethics or of the rights of other people. The term “psychopath” was first applied to these people around 1900. The term was changed to “sociopath” in the 1930s to emphasize the damage they do to society. Currently researchers have returned to using the term “psychopath.” Some of them use that term to refer to a more serious disorder, linked to genetic traits, which produces more dangerous individuals, while continuing to use “sociopath” to refer to less dangerous people who are seen more as products of their environment, including their upbringing. Other researchers make a distinction between “primary psychopaths,” who are thought to be genetically caused, and “secondary psychopaths,” seen more as a product of their environments.

Hilarious horrible things I enjoy too much - so my wife's friend has a bunch of goats and has taken them to a new local beer fest thing - Bock Fest. The 4H kids who own some of the goats take them and race them down the street - no dragging or anything, just herd animals, if you start running, they start running. It's a fun thing but inevitably people bring their dogs by and some are well behaved and some... not. Those are the ones I enjoy fucking with their owners.

Me, motioning at dog right at fence barking like crazy, shoving it's head through it and the four or five full grown adults staring at it from three or four feet away - "Might want to watch your dog"

Me, smiling because I'm an asshole "Yeah, no, that's not what I'm saying. They hate strange dogs. With it sticking it's head through, those goats are about kill it to protect their kids. "

Dog owner, realizing the danger their dog has been in for however long they've been ignoring it and the half ton's worth of angry goats staring at it "Oh shit!"

And then the take their barking dogs elsewhere!

So.. there you go, just keep five full grown goats with you at all times. The problems will solve themselves! Also I'm not kidding about them trying to kill the dog. They'll fuck that dog up. I'm just an asshole for smiling about it.

heuristically_alone wrote:I want to write a DnD campaign and play it by myself and DM it myself.

heuristically_alone wrote:I have been informed that this is called writing a book.

My dad used to tell a story of how he used to own a Chow (the full size version ). He was walking it one day (on a lead) when a woman let her pit bull off the lead and it attacked the chow. She seemed to be encouraging it right up until the point when the pit bull realised it had a mouthful of fur and the chow chomped down on it. The chow let go immediately, the other dog ran back to the owner and she had the nerve to yell at him for his dog hurting hers.

He said chows were bred as bear hunters or something so their fur is designed to not need much force to come out. Not sure how true that is but makes an interesting story.

Crabtree's bludgeon: “no set of mutually inconsistent observations can exist for which some human intellect cannot conceive a coherent explanation, however complicated”

I've told him *he* has to care for them, because growing up in 4H myself I know what little bastards they can be. And also total sweethearts, tbf. But I'm not dealing with escape artists or getting them and their horns de-stuck in the fence for the thousandth time because they get the pool noodles off somehow and still insist on headbutting it or the fact that they seem to die suddenly for no good reason. I'll clicker train them tricks but that is it.